----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Steele" <[email protected]>
[ quoting me: ] > > So your airchain machines don't talk to the Internet at all, then? > Well, they do. And let me state here and now that I did not design the > layout of our network, and won't claim this to be the best. All > automation equipment is on a completely seperate network from > everything else. In my opinion, it's ok to be sub-optimal a little bit, *as long as you know it, and plan around it* (and advise everyone who needs to know it). And that's another good point to make right there: "Should we spend the money to make this tighter" really is a business rather than engineering decision. As engineering types, our obligation is to figure out what short-cutting things might cause, and make sure the business types have been formally advised in a documentary fashion (this is called the CYA memo, generally :-). Once that's done, it isn't our fault if the station goes off the air cause they cheaped out. :-) > there is a completely seperate cable modem, firewall/router and > switches. we have two stations (one using a non Rivendell automation > system) and each automation is on its own Gigabit switch. Only critical > machines are on this network and NO internet browsing is done, though > there must be internet connectivity fro things like now/next data, our > shoutcast streams, RDCatch, etc.... user accessed machines on this > network (production computers, etc) have thier DNS settings wrong so > they can't get to the internet, and they are still running AV software > anyway. FWIW: it's often useful to do wire-analysis on such networks, and put controlled-outbound firewalling on them. > Again, I try to do the best with what I have, and won't claim security > to be an area of expertise, though compared to joe average I'm sure > I"m leagues above, compared to a network security specialist I am surely a > rank amateur.... It is, as they used to like to say at my last IT Director gig, what it is. > When I was 19 I studied to be a recording engineer. life happened and > I had to go back to my hometown (with 0 recording studios) and3 years > later I went back to school to get an associates degree in electronics, > which included a handful of computer hardware, programming, and > networking classes, and of course had been tinkering with computers > since I was 14 (but audio most of my life). Did 6 years as an AV Tech > for the local school board, designing installing and repairing audio > video and lighting systems/ equipment. Met our chief engineer during > this time and did some part time work for the station. when It came time > to launch the second station I quit the cushy govt job and Now I"m in > radio the last 3 years. In some ways I am still a fish out of water, by > no means a radio veteran, but studios are studios, and audio is audio. > The rest I just have to take a it comes. Fortunately the Chief is very > strong on RF and has been in radio most of his life, so I have a good > mentor on the RF side of things. "Life happened". I like that. Yeah, that's generally how it goes. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
